Jesse Ausubel
He was a YSSP member in 1979, then leader of IIASA’s
Climate Task within the Resources and Environment Program from 1979 to 1981.
Of IIASA, he says: “My experiences at IASA profoundly influenced my career in every way: the problems I work on, the ways I approach the problems in a technical
sense, the shift from a uni-national to a multi-national perspective, the networks of people with whom I work, and my belief in the contribution science can make to
conflict resolution.”
To maintain IIASA’s importance in the future, he once advocated: “IIASA is a small institute. It can address only a few problems. But…whatever IIASA does, it must be politically and intellectually dangerous.”